Nde

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Initialism of near-death experience (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries

/ⁿɗe/(machine-generated) Swahili · model-generated · uncertain

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Nde is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Congo - Kinshasa than in any other country. In Cameroon it is the 54th most common surname.

  • CMCameroon≈1 in 2.4Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
  • CDCongo - Kinshasa≈1 in 6.4Kfew records
  • NGNigeria≈1 in 280Kfew records

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Congo - Kinshasa (inferred from the name graph)

≈17,000 people, est.

Record sources
83 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 2.4K (inferred from the name graph)

Cameroon, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

How to pronounce Nde

  • Swahili:/ⁿɗe/(machine-generated) model-generated

Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

Initialism of near-death experience.

Cited for this meaning 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where the surname Nde is found

(measured from records)

Nde counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Nde is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CD Congo - Kinshasa#799≈17,000 est.≈1 in 6.4K—Nde4
CM Cameroon#54≈12,000 est.≈1 in 2.4K—Nde22
CG Congo - Brazzaville—≈870 est.≈1 in 7.3K—Nde4
NG Nigeria—≈840 est.≈1 in 277K—Nde17
ZA South Africa—≈110 est.≈1 in 584K—Nde7
BR Brazil—281 in 7.6M28Nde15
EE Estonia—≈3 est.≈1 in 460Klisted——

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Nde is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Indonesian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia

    Also written N'De

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Ndé

38 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses

(measured from records)

Nde is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In men, and adj., a lie, liar; addicted to lying. Negi lengo

    as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language

  • ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Northern Ndebele.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In nzd, he (human third-person singular pronoun)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Japanese, Rōmaji transcription of んで

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

How to address them

(machine-generated)
FormalDear Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence

(measured from records)

7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Nde mean, and where does it come from?
Initialism of near-death experience. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Nde?
In Swahili /ⁿɗe/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
Which countries have the most people with the surname Nde?
Mondonomo estimates about 17 thousand people named Nde in Congo - Kinshasa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nde. After it come Cameroon, Congo - Brazzaville, Nigeria and South Africa; the country table on this page ranks them.
How common is the name Nde?
In Brazil, the national register counted 28 people named Nde, about 1 in 7.6 million residents.
How common is Nde compared with other names?
In Congo - Kinshasa, Nde is the 799th most common surname of 44,726 surnames recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Nde” — the 799th most common surname in Congo - Kinshasa. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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